You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
AGNES MARTINTo progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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